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The SMB Jumpstreet Podcast covers news and topics of interest to technology consultants focused on small and medium-sized businesses. Hosted by Wayne Schulz of Shulz Consulting and Peter Wolf of QuantaCRM, the SMB Jumpstreet Podcast is the only podcast guaranteed to deliver their unique brand of dumb advice about technology news and suggestions on how technology consultants can survive in today’s world of rapidly changing service models.

The SMB Jumpstreet Podcast covers news and topics of interest to technology consultants focused on small and medium-sized businesses. Hosted by Wayne Schulz of Shulz Consulting and Peter Wolf of QuantaCRM, the SMB Jumpstreet Podcast is the only podcast guaranteed to deliver their unique brand of dumb advice about technology news and suggestions on how technology consultants can survive in today’s world of rapidly changing service models.

The SMB Jumpstreet Podcast covers news and topics of interest to technology consultants focused on small and medium-sized businesses. Hosted by Wayne Schulz of Shulz Consulting and Peter Wolf of QuantaCRM, the SMB Jumpstreet Podcast is the only podcast guaranteed to deliver their unique brand of dumb advice about technology news and suggestions on how technology consultants can survive in today’s world of rapidly changing service models.

Episodes

This interview was conducted live from Sage Summit 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia with Pete Potsos, National Account Manager for Sage Software. Pete has an interesting background. You’ll hear about that and his views on building a channel, the importance of collaboration, the opportunities and challenges of working with Accounting Firms, and much more! For more […]
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This interview was conducted live from Sage Summit 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia with Jennifer Warawa. We cover a lot of ground here discussing: Jennifer’s past as a reseller and how she sold her practice Her transition to Sage and her desire to shake up the status quo How proper collaboration leads to effective and […]
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Special Shout Out to Listener of the Day, Cooper Black of ASI. Listen to the show to see how you can qualify for the coveted Listener of the Day spot. Wayne and Peter run through the highlights reel of Sage Summit. Customers and prospects descend upon Atlanta to bask in the Sage goodness. Listen […]
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Wayne and Peter are kicking off a new style of podcast this week – recording live from Sage Summit 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. Kind of like those old television shows that “recorded live before a studio audience” except we won’t have a studio audience. We’ll be doing daily recaps for the next few days of […]
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EVENT NEWS Wayne and I will be at Sage Summit in Atlanta – giving our listeners and blog readers the inside scoop. MAIN DISCUSSION Recently at the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit conference, I had the opportunity to sit down with nearly a dozen IT and MSP partners to discuss business strategies. In addition to […]
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MAIN DISCUSSION At the CompTIA Annual Member Meeting on 03/22/17, Tom Wujec, Autodesk Fellow, gave a presentation on “Fostering Innovation in an Era of Exponentially Growing Technologies” http://www.ted.com/speakers/tom_wujec http://www.tomwujec.com/ Several key things came from this talk: Technology innovation is happening at an accelerate pace – hard to imagine and keep up with Phones Mobile […]
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NEWS Sage buys Fairsai – HRMS – Sage People – probably explains why CEO Stephen Kelly skipped out on his namesake “CEO Circle” event which was held for the top Sage partners in Costa Rica February 23-27, 2017. Sage annual meeting was also the Tuesday after CEO Circle. Maybe Sage was scrambling to try […]
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Show Notes: Recorded live at the annual 90 Minds’ Meeting of the Minds Conference in sunny San Diego. Some brief Sage news and product information gathered during the conference. Topic of the Day: Surviving in a World of Zero Margin Imagine your vendors no longer offered margin. How does this change your business? The […]
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NEWS Death of Alan Bryant – long time Sage ISV and VP – co-founder of Macabe Associates with his sister Tina Ingallis. Sage releases attendance estimates for Sage Summit Tour – a total estimate of about 17,000 people expected at the 9 events. https://www.sage.com/sage-summit/en-uk/pdfs/Final_Sage_Summit_Tour_London_Prospectus.pdf Intuit Inc., the maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks, on Wednesday […]
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NEWS Oracle gives notice that 450 employees in its Santa Clara hardware systems division would be laid off. The article quotes Oracle as saying ” The Santa Clara facility is not closing as part of this reduction in force,” the company wrote Wednesday. “Rather, Oracle is refocusing its Hardware Systems business, and for that […]
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NEWS Microsoft folds Envision into Microsoft Ignite – September 25-29, 2017 Orlando, FL – the event had been introduced by CMO Chris Capossela in a January 13, 2016 blog post as a replacement to Convergence and was held in New Orleans April 4-6, 2016. Envision was for CxOs and their senior department and functional […]
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